Research Catalog

Title

Animal crackers / book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind ; music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

Publication

New York : Samuel French, c1984.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961
• Ryskind, Morrie, 1895-1985
• Kalmar, Bert, 1884-1947.
• Ruby, Harry

Description

105 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"A stage vehicle for the Marx Brothers. The scene is the Long Island estate of Mrs. Rittenhouse, a wealthy patroness of the arts with a marriageable daughter. Her celebrity weekend guest is the renowned Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African Explorer. He arrives with his secretary, Horatio Jameson, followed by pair of "musicians": Ravelli and the Professor. What follows is typical Marxian lunacy, involving a stolen painting, a surreal bridge game, a Broadway gossip columnist named Wally Winston, a financial wizard formerly known as Abie the Fish Peddler, and a climatic burlesque of Marie Antoinette and the Three Musketeers."--George S. Kaufman website.

Series Statement

French's musical library

Uniform Title

• Animal crackers. Libretto.
• French's musical library.

Subject

Musicals > Librettos

Genre/Form

• Librettos.
• Musicals

Note

• "As presented by Arena Stage [Washington, D.C.] May 1982."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0573681376 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^85113720^/MN

OCLC

• 12693692
• SCSB-10007415

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library